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The best thing I learned from my book about internet dissidents

Sometimes, people in Russia hold these things called monstrations (like demonstrations without the de), which are like protests, but instead of protests they are performance art. And instead of protesting real things, they march all around with billboards that say things like No to colonization of Mars! and You are too boring to talk to! and WET PRIESTS. Ahahaha, Russia, you’re so weird! What a weird thing to do! Protests get stifled in Russia, so Russia has performance art protests instead. Ugh, that wasn’t fair. Sometimes Russia has real protests too. But they also have these fake performance art protests, and I think this should…

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